The word is out, there’s great stuff coming up ahead for you at TechEd North America! At this premiere event for IT professionals and enterprise developers, you’ll be able to choose from among nine tracks covering Microsoft’s latest...

If you’re a TechEd alumni, you already know the goodness that’s coming your way. If this is your first time, boy, are you in for a real treat! TechEd is the premiere event for IT pros and enterprise developers. At this event, you will connect...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where protection of virtual machines on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster host fails with error ID 30156 “The system cannot find the path specified...

Microsoft’s own Santos Martinez (Premier Field Engineering) recently wrote a great blog post describing his experience troubleshooting the inability to create custom reports in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. What he ran into was the issue where ...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: May 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. We value customer...

We published a new hotfix today for ConfigMgr 2012 to correct the following issue: Consider the following scenario: You have a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site environment.  You import a third-party root certification authority...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where attempts to restore a SharePoint default.aspx file using DPM Item Level Recovery (ILR) fails with internal error code: 0x80990E14. This is a fairly...

Microsoft’s own Thamim Karim has a great article on a really cool new feature in App-V 5.0 called Share Content Store. What is Shared Content Store? Shared Content Store in App-V 5.0 allows us to stream directly from a content source without having to...

In every OM12 Management Group, there is a “APM event collection Rule”. One and only one. What this does it, for each application configured for APM, subscribes to the APM Dispatcher (part of the “System Center Management APM”...

The System Center Universe is expanding to Europe!  A new System Center Universe will be held in Switzerland in September! For two days, IT professionals will get up to speed on the latest information about Microsoft System Center Cloud and Datacenter...

Get your STEK (not steak)!  The S ervice T emplate E xample K it is now available on the TechNet Gallery. This set of System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager service templates provide the necessary base for which you can create deployable...

We’ve recently been running a series of TechNet Radio shows on Building a Private Cloud with technical evangelists Keith Mayer and Yung Chou to show you how to build and manage your hybrid cloud environment with System Center 2012 SP1. Tune in as they...

We wanted to let you know that two Test Lab Guides for VMM (System Center 2012 SP1) are now available. The first one walks you through installing a VMM server, using the evaluation VHD for VMM. The second one tells how to use VMM to deploy a pair of virtual...

At some events last year, I demonstrated an incident “dashboard” that I had created using the cubes in the data warehouse and Excel pivot tables.  I never really got around to discussing in detail how I created those though.  Antoni Hanus, a...

Earlier this week MVP Cameron Fuller presented in the Windows Server/System Center MVP Pro Speaker Series webcast on the topic of “Operations Manager Evolution: Taking Your Operations Manager to the Next Level”.  If you didn't catch it live, please...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could run Windows Azure in your own datacenter?  Well, now you can!  With the recent release of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server you can run elements of Azure IaaS on premise in your own datacenter for virtual...

Microsoft’s own Chris Butcher posted a couple great videos that walk you through how to protect SharePoint 2010 using System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. It’s a two part series which run about a half an hour each and you can check them out below...

In this blog, we begin to introduce multi-tenancy and isolation into the Logical Network design process we discussed in Part II, reviewing each of the Logical Networks we identified to determine whether or not you need to isolate groups of virtual machines...

Richard Pesenko, Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer on our Operations Manager support team, has a new video out that walks you all through visualizing alert data in OpsMgr 2012. It’s only 10 minutes long so it’s a great way to quickly become...

A common troubleshooting task for the Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 client (App-V 5.0) is to investigate or modify a local package by opening a process inside the context of an App-V application.  This is also known as opening a process...

Just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article for ConfigMgr 2007 that we published today. This one talks about a fairly rare issue that you may run into if you modify the properties of a maintenance window right after creating a new software...

Just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published today that talks about using UE-V with Microsoft App-V. Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) supports Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) applications out...

On April 8, Microsoft launched the Windows Intune Partner Gallery . The Gallery will showcase partner created videos that demo the product, talk about the partner business opportunity and showcases customer wins. Videos don’t need to be polished...

For those who couldn’t attend the live webcast, today we’re publishing the May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing...

Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello again folks, this is Chris Butcher and I realized it has been too long since my last blog post. I recently worked with a customer and through our conversations realized that there is a lack of information...